Posted on 04/09/2009 3:16:05 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
HCR 50 Reiterates Texas’ Rights Over Powers Not Otherwise Granted to Federal Government
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”
A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.
It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.
HCR 50 is authored by Representatives Brandon Creighton, Leo Berman, Bryan Hughes, Dan Gattis and Ryan Guillen.
(Excerpt) Read more at governor.state.tx.us ...
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
One of the states that means it.
God Bless Mr. Perry, Mr. Creighton and the state of Texas.
Yeeeehaaawwww!!!!
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
This is NOT the governor Perry I know. Actually growing a pair? I’ll believe it when I see it.
It is for sure his opponent cannot grow them.
I thought the exact same thing.
Lets see how far he will run with it.
>> This is NOT the governor Perry I know. Actually growing a pair? I’ll believe it when I see it.
He’s looking ahead to the primary, and moving to the right of Kay Bailey Rinocerouson. Not that that’s much of a challenge.
Goodness knows if he can and will hold the line. I don’t know whether to trust him or not.
My opinion of both of them is fairly low.
I heard they had the money to build the fence and it went to other things. So we shall see.
I saw Perry on Beck’s show today actually talking about defending the border and stating the Feds have not been doing their job over the past years.
Talking up defending the border AND defending state’s rights all in one day. Whoa!
I, too, will have to wait and see because talk is cheap.
Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
My knee jerk reaction is that this is just Texas swagger to get him some press and his ultimate goal is to run for president in 2012.
/johnny
Every so often, Governor Hairdo says or does the correct thing.
Well let your knee jerk all it wants. We still need to take a stand and tell the Feds to go to Hell. Remember, we entered this country by treaty as a sovereign nation, a republic. We must never forget that state of mind.
PING
Also Glen Beck will be at the San Antonio Tea Party on the 15th at the Alamo!!
Even our little town is having a tea party. Wow.
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